Improvement in baggage-identifiers for trunks



CQE. QNGALLS.

Baggage Identifier for Trunks.

Pai'ente Febi 13,187.2.1

Inventor'.

Wifnesses.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

CHARLES E. INGALLS, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO DANIEL V'YMAN, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAGGAGE-IDENTIFIERS FOR TRUNKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,703, dated February 13, 1872.

i' other means used heretofore for identification.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l shows my invention as attached to the front plate of an ordinary trunk-lock below the keyhole guard. Fig.2 is avertical section through thesame, indicated by dotted lines x J.

A is the front or face-plate of thelock. B is an oval opening underneath the key-hole O, having a swinging guard, d, attached by a cap, e, to which the key-hole guard s is also attached. G is a portion of the front side piece of a trunk. H is a plug which ts a circular hole in the front ofthe trunk G. This plug is provided With a head, that it may be removed inwardly from the inside ofthe trunk to insert or remove the likeness therefrom.

In practice I should prefer attaching this invention to the face-plate of any trunk-lock by extending the same down sufficiently to allour the opening B to be made therein of any.

form or size desired, and providing the same with asuitable guard, d. The likenessbeinginserted from the inside of the trunk would pre vent its being removed when the trunk Was locked.v

I claim as my inventionl. In a trunk or baggage-case lock provided with suitable retaining and protecting apparatus, the arrangement, substantially as described, of a likeness, as and for the purposes setv forth.

2. A trunk or baggage-case lock provided with the opening or aperture, B, guard d, and the plug H, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: OHAS. E. INGALLS.

SYLvENUs WALKER, Jos. H. WHITMAN. 

